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Hannah More (1745–1833) was a British writer, poet, essayist, and philanthropist. She was a member of the Blue Stockings Society and affiliated with the Clapham Sect. Her religious worldview was Anglican, and she wrote in English. She resided in Bristol and died in Clifton.
Her notable works include *Strictures on the modern system of female education*, *'Tis all for the best*, *The search after happiness*, and *Stories for the young, or Cheap repository tracts, entertaining, moral, and religious*. She also authored *History of the plague in London, in 1665*. More used the pseudonym Will Chip. She is described in sources such as the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*, *The Nuttall Encyclopædia*, and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition. She was buried in Somerset.
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- Born
- 1745
- Died
- 1833
- Works
- 547
Top works
- Strictures on the modern system of female education
- 'Tis all for the best
- The search after happiness
- Stories for the young, or Cheap repository tracts, entertaining, moral, and religious
- History of the plague in London, in 1665
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1745-02-02 ) 2 February 1745, Fishponds, Bristol
- Died
- 7 September 1833 (1833-09-07) (aged 88), Clifton, Bristol
- Resting place
- Wrington, Somerset
- Occupations
- Poet playwright author educator
- Known for
- Poetry drama philanthropy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hannah
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of death
- Clifton
- Occupation
- playwright
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Field of work
- essay
- Image
- HannahMore.jpg
- Residence
- Bristol
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- Hannah More
- date of birth
- 1745-02-02
- date of death
- 1833-09-07
- affiliation
- Clapham Sect
- writing language
- English language
- pseudonym
- Will Chip
- described at URL
- cudl.colorado.edu/luna/servlet/view/all/who/More%252C%2BHannah?sort=title%2Cdate_created
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- Hannah More
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Encyclopedic overview
Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English writer, philanthropist, poet and playwright. She was active the circles of Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick and wrote on moral and religious subjects. Born in Bristol, she taught at a school her father founded there and began writing plays. She became involved in the London literary elite and a leading Bluestocking member. Her later plays and poetry became more evangelical. She joined the Clapham Sect, a group opposing the Atlantic slave trade.
In the 1790s, More wrote Cheap Repository Tracts on moral, religious and political topics, to distribute to the literate poor (as a retort to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man). Meanwhile, she broadened her links with schools she and her sister Martha had founded in rural Somerset. These curbed their teaching of the poor, allowing limited reading but no writing. More was noted for her political conservatism, being described as an anti-feminist, a counter-revolutionary, or a conservative feminist.
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